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[Fabrizio Tappero <fabrizio.tappero@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dick,
As it happens very often, I agree with all your points.

I am glad I could contribute on this. I let some days pass and delete
the one on the kicad-pcb website and instead put the link to yours.

Cheers
Fabrizio


On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10/18/2013 06:53 AM, Fabrizio Tappero wrote:
>> Dear Dick,
>> I see that you have included kicad-install.sh in the script folder.
>> Great. Mind that I have done some tests and I had to make some
>> modifications (included yum too). Would that be possible to update the
>> one that you put in the script folder with the kicad-install.sh from
>> here:
>> http://www.kicad-pcb.org/download/attachments/4685872/kicad-installer.zip
>>
>> Also, how do I keep them synchronized? Shall I just put a link in the
>> kicad-pcb.org page point at the launchpad?
>
> Yours does not install fp-lib-table.  I just updated mine to incorporate some concepts
> from yours  :)
>
> I have people using this script now, people I am paying, so their time is my money, and I
> plan on maintaining it, and will try and receive patches that don't break it in good faith.
>
> I have serious doubts that the packages for YUM systems are all named the same as APT-GET
> systems, so I think our install_prerequisites will need some further tuning on red had
> (i.e. yum) systems.
>
>
>
>>
>> Regards
>> Fabrizio
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Fabrizio Tappero
>> <fabrizio.tappero@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> I updated the script according to Dick's suggestion and added some
>>> modifications in it for "yum" people so that we are now a bigger
>>> family. I also uploaded it to the web:
>>> http://www.kicad-pcb.org/display/KICAD/Download
>>>
>>> just a question, Dick, why don't we like "sudo apt-get build-dep
>>> kicad"? you removed it. Shouldn't be better to have it there? just in
>>> case in the future we add some libs, some apt-get guy detect it but we
>>> do not update this script accordingly.
>>>
>>> Dick, thanks for the "make package" thing. I think it is great ! I
>>> have done some googleing and noticed that for instance slackware Linux
>>> does maintain a "recent" version (03/2013) of KiCad:
>>> http://slackbuilds.org/result/?search=kicad&sv=14.0
>>>
>>> Debian people do it too but it is 1.5 years old. I contacted the
>>> maintainer but mail bounced back.
>>>
>>> There is also and unofficial Debian/Ubuntu apt-get repo that looks
>>> very official and that we could use:
>>> http://www.apt-get.org/
>>>
>>> The question is kind of philosophical, who should maintain packages
>>> and distribute open-source software? the developers of the software or
>>> the guys doing Linux distros?
>>>
>>> Well guys, I think lots of progress on this subject has been made
>>> since two weeks ago, I think cmake is the way to make .deb. I think
>>> the script on the web is great for the people who want to compile. We
>>> just need an additional step adding Adam's server in the equation?
>>>
>>> Adam, I'll have a look at Karl's stuff and contribute to the cmake but
>>> first I'd like to fix all this .desktop files and especially this
>>> icons issue. It seems to me that there is a little bit of a mess
>>> there.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Fabrizio
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 9:13 PM, Adam Wolf
>>> <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> There have been some discussion in Debian land about changing how they
>>>> package Python-y stuff, that will make a world of difference for me.  It
>>>> looks like it's going through, so there's light at the end of that tunnel
>>>> too.
>>>>
>>>> Adam Wolf
>>>> W&L
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> CMake now builds a primitive *.deb file on Ubuntu/Mint/Debian.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> $ make package
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> It has no dependencies, so it about like using checkinstall.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Dick
>>>>>
>>>>>
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